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I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

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• 'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Important
  • Family
  • Experience

• And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • You
  • Perspective
  • Hollywood

• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
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• I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.

  

  Yohan Blake
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  • Legend

• I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties begin. At this time, a coach needs to go into more detail with his instructions, and that's where the problems can lie.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Time
  • Long
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• What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
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• Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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  • God
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• When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

  

  Alan Alda
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  • Dog
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• If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

  

  Ajahn Chah
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• People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.

  

  David Wessel
  • People
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  • Government

• The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

  

  George Inness
  • Humanity
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• I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.

  

  Melvyn Bragg
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• I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

  

  Anthony Lewis
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